Subject Guide Children's and Juvenile Literature
Top databases
- Bibliographie der Deutschen Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaft - Info *
- MLA International Bibliography - Info *
- FIS Bildung Literaturdatenbank - Info
- Bibliographie des Jahrbuchs Kinder- und Jugendliteraturforschung - Info
- Database of Award-Winning Children's Literature - Info
- Deutscher Jugendliteraturpreis - Info
* Accessible from a TU Dortmund IP address only (further information)
- Emil-Figge-Bibliothek
- New additions
- Information for Academic Staff
- Department of Cultural Studies at TU Dortmund University
- Library catalog, book trade directory
- Online catalog of the International Youth Library, Munich
- Kibum - Oldenburger Kinder- und Jugendbuchmesse
- Electronic full texts
- Children's Historical Literature Disseminated throughout Europe (CHILDE)
Digitized children's books from all over Europe - Children's Books Collection of Braunschweig University Library
Collection of children's books, amongst others from the Hobrecker collection - International Children's Digital Library
- Children's Historical Literature Disseminated throughout Europe (CHILDE)
- Open Access in the field of Philology
- Links
- Portals
- Children's and youth literature in general
- Ivy's Search Engine Resources for Kids
Search engine for child-specific sites; English-language - List of children's literature authors from the Wikipedia (German version)
- Kinderbuch-Couch.de
"Information portal for parents on the subject of children's books for ages 0-6".
- Ivy's Search Engine Resources for Kids
- Organizations, Institutions
- Institutes, research facilities
- Children's Literature Association (ChLA)
- Department of Children's and Juvenile Literature of Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin - Preußischer Kulturbesitz
- OlFoKi (Uni Oldenburg, Forschungsstelle Kinder- und Jugendliteratur)
- Project on Retrospective digitizing of children's and juvenile books of BIS, University of Oldenburg
- Institut für angewandte Kindermedienforschung, Stuttgart
- Associations
- Institutes, research facilities
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Special collections of the German university and special libraries of the German Research Foundation (DFG)
German Studies is taken care of by the University Library Johann Christian Senckenberg, Frankfurt am Main (as well as General and Comparative Linguistics and Literary Studies). Children's and youth literature is also acquired within this framework. The acquisitions are indexed in current bibliographies or can be searched online.
Book locations in the Emil-Figge-Bibliothek (EFB)
- Books
Shelf mark: C - Textbook collection
Shelf mark: L Ca - Not borrowable
- Encyclopedias, dictionaries, bibliographies and handbooks are generally not available for loan, as are individual copies of much-used research and study literature.
- Journals
Shelf mark: ZC (Issues of the current year)
Catalogs of Dortmund University Library
- Catalog plus
- Die Digitale Bibliothek: database profile humanities Simultaneous search in catalogs and literature databases
- Zeitschriftendatenbank (ZDB, with holdings of German libraries)
holdings of Dortmund University Library: NRW <290> - Electronic journals on children's and youth literature
- Eldorado
Catalogue of Dortmund University electronic publications (mainly theses). Full texts available. - NRW: HBZ-Verbundkatalog
Library catalog for North Rhine-Westphalia and Rhineland-Palatinate - Germany: Karlsruher Virtueller Katalog (KVK)
for titles not available in Dortmund or NRW
If you didn't find what you are looking for
Printed Bibliographies and Reference Works
Children's and Juvenile literature is bought within the acquisitions in German literature, since 1965/66 also within the acwuisitions in English literature.
Bibliographies and reference works on Children's and Juvenile literature can be found in Emil-Figge-Bibliothek, shelf marks SDA resp. SEA.